Wednesday, August 2, 2017

This second post
features advertisements from "The Australian Motor Cyclist”, Vol.3 No.5,
which is September 1938..... a continuing series from a selection of the many
of these Australian motorcycle magazines I have from 1936 onward... looking at
dealer adverts for the various motorcycle brands available at that
time...likely of greater interest to my Australian blog followers, but I'm sure
the rest of you will get something from them... Interesting the use cover for
the front cover, inner front and inner rear covers illustrated, even if they
only used red and blue!

This post will feature advertisements from "Motorcycling in Australia", Vol.1 No.11, which is February 1948.....It will be part of a series from a selection of the many of these Australian motorcycle magazines from 1936 onward...We'll look at dealer adverts for the various motorcycle brands available at that time...likely of greater interest to my Australian blog followers, but I'm sure the rest of you will get something from them...Interesting the use cover for the front cover, inner front and inner rear covers illustrated, even if they only used red and green! Read on...!

Thursday, April 6, 2017

Perusing one of my small folders in my archive I've come across some interesting photos, varying in quality, but super historic of road racing in Northern Ireland in 1945/1946, as it contains photos taken at races in Northern Ireland in 1945/46. Included are Bangor Castle July 1945 (war still in the Far East) Ulster MCC Ulster 100 Victory Road Race only held once in September 1945 with Artie Bell # 3 winner 500 Class, Rex McCandless 2nd also Cromie McCandless # 14 after finishing he won Novice's Class on Beniel must have been it's debut ! #2 of 1939 KTT Vic Willoughby winner on a 350 Velocette Ulster Road Race Clady 1946 and Ernie Lyons # 14 first outing for that machine retired. Now these photos are via Dave & Joan Crawford of Northern Ireland, who in 2012 visited a friend Billy Chambers and they are from his photo album. He's happy for me to post them on my webblog but of course we give full credit to him and as usual I'm not unhappy at folk capturing some...BUT..I'm real cranky when you don't acknowledge Billy Chambers and if you don't take the description of the photo as well...so we all know who the photo refers to... There...the Velobanjogent has jumped off his soapbox and lets look at some pix....

I'm having trouble with the text into the post...so I'll leave it for a day and come back....please revisit the site again.... These following two pages are what the album looked like....

The following scans are in B&W from the Crawfords...Below #47, unknown rider in 1945 Ulster 100

Acknowledgement of items used in this Blog from my archive...

I often feature items from older Motorcycle magazines, including photographs and other drawings, cartoons etc in my Blog. Where possible I acknowledge their source. These items are often from "MotorCycle" and "MotorCycling", and the current copyright holders are Mortons Motor Cycle Media. I thank them for their use.

Where other sources are used such as Fox Photos, Keystone Press and other now defunct press agencies from the UK and elsewhere I attempt to acknowledge their source.

You are free to use any item from my Blog, but PLEASE give credit to the source.

DQ on his Velo Special

Velo Thruxton at speed

About Me

I've motorcycled since the early 1960s...both in Australia, the USA,NZ and UK to where my long suffering wife and I rode a 1972 BMW R50/5 motorcycle via the overland route through Asia in 1974. Careers in Animal Physiology and Automotive Instruments and now finally semi retired into music...as a banjoist in Trad./Dixieland Jazz bands.
Life for me is very interesting......